{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-act-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-act-1996/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/49",
  "legislation_title": "Asylum and Immigration Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/asylum-and-immigration-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In subsection (1) of section 33 of the 1971 Act (interpretation), for the definitions of “entrant” and “illegal entrant” there shall be substituted the following definitions—\n““entrant” means a person entering or seeking to enter the United Kingdom and “illegal entrant” means a person—\n(a) unlawfully entering or seeking to enter in breach of a deportation order or of the immigration laws, or\n(b) entering or seeking to enter by means which include deception by another person,\nand includes also a person who has entered as mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b) above; ”.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4(2) repealed (2.10.2000) by 1999 c. 33, s. 169(1)(3), Sch. 14 paras. 108, 114, Sch. 16; S.I. 2000/2444, art. 2, Sch. 1 (with transitional provisions in arts. 3, 4); (which amending provision is extended (with modifications) to Jersey (5.6.2003) by S.I. 2003/1252, art. 2, Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4(1)(2) extended (Guernsey) (with modifications) (20.7.1998) by S.I. 1998/1264, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4(1)(2) extended (Jersey) (with modifications) (22.7.1998) by S.I. 1998/1070, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 4 wholly in force at 1.10.1996; Sch. 2 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 13(3); Sch. 2 para. 4 in force at 1.10.1996 by S.I. 1996/2053, art. 2, Sch. Pt. III"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/49/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:49.255389+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}